Word: ersatz
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Although big Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) has U. S. rights to the process for the manufacture of Buna-S, the German tire ersatz that shoes the wheels of Nazi military equipment, it is not yet ready for commercial production, nor have other synthetic rubbers made in the U. S. yet been shown commercially usable for tires. Last week, surveying its tiny stock pile, the U. S. rubber industry went into no panic, said not a word about the possibility of higher prices for tires. But the headlines helped speculators raise the price of spot rubber from...
Outstanding ersatz tire rubber is Germany's Buna, which now shoes virtually all the Reich's motorcars and trucks, won combat spurs on cavalry cars and artillery prime movers in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland...
...Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign...
...from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port of Narvik (now subject to the Allied blockade...
...snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...